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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.

I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.